Trends in in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation and survival in adults receiving maintenance dialysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Understanding cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) practices and outcomes can help to support advance care planning in patients receiving maintenance dialysis.

Objective

To characterize patterns and outcomes of in-hospital CPR in US adults receiving maintenance dialysis.

Design, setting, and participants

This national retrospective cohort study studied 663,734 Medicare beneficiaries 18 years or older from a comprehensive national registry for end-stage renal disease who initiated maintenance dialysis from January 1, 2000, through December 31, 2010.

Exposures

Receipt of in-hospital CPR from 91 days after dialysis initiation through the time of death, first kidney transplantation, or end of follow-up on December 31, 2011.

Main outcomes and measures</

SUBMITTER: Wong SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4451394 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature